American President Quotes - Page 5

• Everyone says we have our first African American president. Has there ever been a Jewish president? An Italian president? They don't say a damn thing about that. You think we're still fighting the Civil War or something. If you want to mention it in passing, OK. But don't dwell on it.

  Monte Irvin

  War, Fighting, Italian

  "Giants' pioneer urges outreach to black youths". Interview with John Shea, www.sfgate.com. April 18, 2010.

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• I am proud to live in a country with an African-American president. But President Obama cannot be proud of the fact that the prevalence of black poverty has actually increased under his leadership. The specific policies advanced by the president and his allies on the left amount to little more than throwing money at the problem and walking away.

  Rick Perry

  Leadership, Country, Walking Away

  "Rick Perry tells Republicans to work harder for black votes" by Alex Wilts, uk.reuters.com. July 3, 2015.

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• Human beings have got a lot of good, noble impulses inside them, and most people want to be good and do more good than they do evil. Hell, we've had nuclear weapons now for thirty or thirty-five years and nothing's happened yet. That in itself seems to be a miracle. If Reagan pushes the button or somebody pushes the button in Russia or somebody pushes it in Costa Rica, they can put a big tombstone in outer space that says, "We gave it a good try." Because we have.

  Stephen King

  Tombstone, Years, Space

  High Times Magazine Interview with Martha Thomases, John Robert Tebbel, October 1981.

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• Beyond [Barack Obama] having made history as the first African-American president, I hope that he gets re-elected for what he does while in office, not for his skin color. I certainly believe he has the capacity.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Believe, Skin Color, Office

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• I think George Bush is the most corrupt American president since Harding in the Twenties. He is not the legitimate president. This really is a completely unsupportable government and I look forward to it being overthrown as much as I looked forward to Saddam Hussein being overthrown.

  Ken Livingstone

  Thinking, Government, President

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• I tried to eliminate the need for Israel to strike out, militarily, by removing its major threat and attacker, and that was Egypt. I've written a few books on the subject. There's no doubt that the best way to resolve Israel's problems is to negotiate peace between Israel and its immediate neighbors, particularly the Palestinians. And that's something that's not going to be achieved, in my opinion, without the strong involvement of the American president.

  Jimmy Carter

  Strong, Book, Israel

  "President Jimmy Carter ‘NIV Lessons from Life Bible’ Interview with Kam Williams". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. May 22, 2012.

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• So a Holocaust-denying, virulently anti-Semitic, aspiring genocidist, on the verge of acquiring weapons of the apocalypse, believes that the end is not only near but nearer than the next American presidential election. (Pity the Democrats. They cannot catch a break.) This kind of man would have, to put it gently, less inhibition about starting Armageddon than a normal person.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Believe, Men, Holocaust

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• The American president has to both keep our families safe and make the economy grow in a way that helps everyone, not just those at the top. That`s the job. I have a strategy to combat and defeat ISIS without getting us involved in another ground war. And I have plans to raise incomes and deal with a lot of the problems that keep families up at night.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, War, Night

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I think Donald Trump is totally unfit to be president of the United States. Let's not forget, this guy was one of the leaders of the so-called birther movement, which was an effort to delegitimize the presidency of the first African-American president we have ever had.

  Bernie Sanders

  Thinking, Effort, Guy

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• American presidents always avoid shaking hands with brutal dictators, except when it's advantageous to do so.

  Elizabeth Sherman Lindsay

  Hands, President, Dictator

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• We have hopes that we can see rational American presidents; fair, obey the international law, deal with other countries according to mutual respect, parity, etc., but we all know that this is only wishful thinking and fantasy.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Country, Thinking, Law

  The Associated Press Interview, www.foxnews.com. September 21, 2016.

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• Racism is worse than ever. Violence is worse than ever. The economy's worse than ever. Unemployment's worse than ever. And it's Democrats that have been running the show, with the first African-American president at the top of the heap, and it didn't get any better?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Racism, African American

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• As is always the case with American presidential elections, nobody's talking about the fact that the empire will be ruled from Washington, and foreign policy has just not been on anybody's screen, unfortunately.

  Rashid Khalidi

  Talking, Presidential, Empires

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• President-elect Donald Trump is an unprecedented figure in many respects, in part because there has never been an American president who has such complicated global business interests.

  Rachel Martin

  President, Complicated, Figures

  Source: www.npr.org

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• There are no laws that prohibit an American president from continuing to be involved in their private business matters while in office, right?

  Rachel Martin

  Law, Office, President

  Source: www.npr.org

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• That's not an accident that Donald Trump didn't begin with, say, trade or jobs or anything, that he actually began by otherizing the first African-American president of the United States.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Jobs, African American, President

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Mr. Obama at the UN said that the large nations should not trample small ones in pursuit of what he called "territorial ambition". These are curious statements coming from the American president at this time.

  Vijay Prashad

  Ambition, President, Curious

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Now an American president like [Ronald] Reagan wouldn't have a meeting, wouldn't have a summit. He'd give 'em a warning and then - or [Gerge W.] Bush would give 'em a warning and then - whatever would happen. Because you don't allow the murder of American citizens. You just don't permit it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Giving, President, Citizens

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• "First female president." That's it, and that's nowhere near, by the way, as powerful or penetrating as the first African-American president. I mean, women, yeah, I mean, make the case that they've been victimized. But they can't put themselves in the same shoes as slavery's legacy for example. Now, women might try to make the case. Hillary [Clinton] might try to make the case about not being ought to be able to vote, but it ain't gonna fly.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Powerful, Mean, Shoes

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Donald Trump is an American presidential nominee who was describing Russia in terms that they haven't heard almost ever. And so there is a belief that Donald Trump would be a collaborative, willing and I think perhaps quite able partner.

  Evan Osnos

  Thinking, Russia, Presidential

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I think for the foreseeable future we have to disabuse ourselves of any ideas of unifying, or coming together, or all getting along. I don't think we're going to reconcile the America that elected the first African American president with the America that just elected a president avidly endorsed by the Ku Klux Klan - I'm not sure I even want to reconcile the two.

  Steve Erickson

  Thinking, Two, Ku Klux Klan

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The fact is we're always going to be interwoven with the American economy, and that's why it's important to have a good, strong, constructive relationship with whoever the American President is and whatever administration it is, whatever their priorities. We will always work constructively together. But at the same time, Canadians expect us to stand up for our own values, to make our own choices, whether it's around climate or multilateral institutions, and that's exactly what we're going to keep doing.

  Justin Trudeau

  Strong, Choices, Priorities

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• And you know, we have an African-American president, and you would have thought that he would have done a much better job for African-American citizens of this country. And he hasn't. And I will because I'm going to bring back jobs from China. I'm going to bring back jobs from Mexico and so many other places that are just ripping this country apart.

  Donald Trump

  Country, President, Done

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• We've just got to have American strength on the world stage. When Donald Trump becomes president of the United States, the Russians and other countries in the world will know they're dealing with a strong American president.

  Mike Pence

  Country, Strong, President

  "National Security Highlights from the Vice Presidential Debate" by Zachary Burdette, Quinta Jurecic, www.lawfareblog.com. October 5, 2016.

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• You want to talk about doing damage to our elections and damaging our stature, to have it just thought and stated repeatedly that the strongman of Russia can pick an American presidential candidate and get him or her elected? Do you think if Hillary had won and the Republicans had tried this line that Putin chose her, do you think that would have gotten past a day in the Drive-By Media? They wouldn't have even taken the story. They'd laughed at it, sloughed it off, and you'd-a never heard about it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Taken, Past, Thinking

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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